[118734] in Cypherpunks
Re: Crypto Time Line
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Gutmann)
Wed Oct 6 21:32:30 1999
From: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
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Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 14:10:36 (NZDT)
Message-ID: <93925863619055@cs26.cs.auckland.ac.nz>
Reply-To: pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Gutmann)
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@openpgp.net> writes:
>Has anyone assembled a crypto timeline that outlines the significant events
>in crypto development & government interference (CLIPPER, Key Escrow, ITAR,
>EAR, ... ect)?
If you want one which specifically covers government interference in crypto,
I did one several years ago which goes back to the 1970's, with a reference to
government surveillance of electronic communications from 1909. You can get
it from
http://www.iicm.edu/jucs_2_3/government_cryptography_and_the/html/paper.html.
Peter.
